Custom Homes in Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, OH

Pleasant Ridge (ZIP 45213) is a north-east-side neighborhood built largely between the 1910s and the 1930s, with a notably consistent streetscape of bungalows and small colonials on regular, fairly narrow lots.

That consistency is the thing to design with. On a street where the houses share a setback, a porch line and roughly a story and a half, a new build that ignores all three is conspicuous no matter how well it is finished. The lots are also narrower than they look once side clearances are applied, so the realistic footprint often points toward building up rather than out, a decision worth making deliberately at the drawing stage rather than discovering late.